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Recent climate change has already widespread observable effects on the environment. The WMO Statement on state of the global climate [25] reports that the average global temperature for 2013–2017 is the highest five-year average on record. The global mean temperatures in 2017 were 1.1 °C ± 0.1 °C above pre-industrial levels. It is more than half way towards the maximum limit of temperature increase of 2 °C sought through the Paris Agreement and we are two thirds of the way to a 1.5 °C world. Based on the IPCC AR5 it is very likely that anthropogenic influence, particularly greenhouse gases and stratospheric ozone depletion, has led to a detectable observed pattern of tropospheric warming and it is likely that human influences have affected the global water cycle since 1960 [10]. There has been an overall decrease in the number of cold extremes, an overall increase in the number of warm extremes and an intensification of the hydrological cycle [9].

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    Michael Palocz-Andresen

  2. Institute of Forest- and Environmental Techniques, University of Sopron, Sopron, Hungary

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Gálos, B. (2019). Introduction. In: Palocz-Andresen, M., Szalay, D., Gosztom, A., Sípos, L., Taligás, T. (eds) International Climate Protection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03816-8_9

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